How much more construction can we take?

Thank you for publicizing the greedy intentions of the Clark County Commission in their quest to extend the fuel tax to fund highway construction (Review-Journal, June 22). When they realized what a windfall they had gotten with the indexed levy, they knew they had to keep this cash cow going. Thus the careful selection of wording in the measure the voters would consider on the ballot.

My question to them: Did you have to blow through all the funds so fast? Every major street on the east side of this city has some kind of construction being done. It has gotten so bad that even the detours have detours and commuters are furious. Was it imperative to get it all done at once?

And what’s up with starting projects that don’t have enough money earmarked for their completion?

Sorry, commissioners, you’ll never get my vote no matter what kind of persuasive terminology you come up with. You’ve already shown just how incompetent you are.

I really hope the voters are paying attention to this come November. And I hope this newspaper will continue to keep it before the public’s eyes until then.

Evelyn Veyette

Las Vegas

Taxed out

So the braniacs-that-be want us to vote on taxing our gasoline more. But wait. Sheriff Joe Lombardo wants more cops and even when we vote no he gets them. They want us to fund a stadium. We’re supposed to pay parking fees at the casinos. There’s the power company to deal with.

They say the higher gasoline taxes will pay for repairs on 200 streets. Well, in recent years the heavy machinery all over the roadways supposedly doing street repairs has effectively cured nothing. No thanks.

Kipp Altemara

Las Vegas

Old friend

It’s like the old adage that you never know what you have till it’s gone.

For 29 years my wife and I subscribed to the Review-Journal. We watched it go through many changes and I complained every time. I didn’t like the new look. Or I didn’t like the paper’s politics and I never thought the opinion section was fair.

I’m sorry, Review-Journal. My wife and I moved to Arizona and I now have to get my news from my computer because there is not one newspaper that comes close to the quality I received in Las Vegas. There is no paper between my fingers, no ink to smear, no comic section to start my day.

You never know what you have till it’s gone.

Fredrick Wilkening

Sahuarita, Ariz.

Grinding her ax

Here I was, agreeing with writer Heidi Stevens that placing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill would be a good idea (June 24, commentary “Tubman on $20 bill?”) She wrote five columns of decent argument in favor of Ms. Tubman.

But then, just a few words shy of ending her article on a positive note, she had to blow her credibility as a fair and balanced writer when she said, “Even with Jackson losing his spot on the $20 bill, we will still have white males on every single piece of paper currency in the United States.”

Ms. Stevens argument faded when she exposed herself as simply another angry, progressive, liberal writer with an ax to grind against white men.

Now that is shameful.

Ron Moers

Henderson